Unfortunately, they managed to upset some pretty notable gals, as well as Jewish groups.

Several female lawmakers in the California Legislature are slamming the Academy for its choice of the Family Guy mastermind, saying the folks behind the Oscars "struck a new low in its treatment of women."

In a letter sent to Academy President Howard "Hawk" Koch, a copy of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal and Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson specifically singled out MacFarlane's opening "We Saw Your Boobs" musical number among other bits they considered insulting.

The funnyman's jokes "reduced our finest female actresses to caricatures and stereotypes, degrading women as a whole and the filmmaking industry itself," they wrote.

The letter continued: "It is unacceptable for the entity that celebrates filmmaking and pop culture to have Seth MacFarlane deliver a misogynistic and degrading monologue against actresses who have shown courage in addressing thought-provoking and realistic experiences on film."